IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 5529

Document, support procedure to import TSM 6.3 Cognos reports in TCR server

ITM V6 customers already have ITM TEMS, TEPS and Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) servers for monitoring. TCR 2.1.1 can be downloaded and installed from ITM 6.2.3....We need to know the TSM 6.3 package to download/extract to retrieve the TSM 6.3 Cognos...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

Cancel all processes of a given type by name

Enhance the cancel command to be able to cancel all processes of a given type by name.� For example, a �cancel migrations� or a �cancel reclamations� command should cancel those types of processes if they are running without executing a cancel pro...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Further develop the storage pool migration mechanism

Develop the storage migration mechanism (both the MIGRATE STG command and automatically initiated equivalents) to either move data at a more granular level than node ownership, or develop it to support multiple processes per whatever level of gran...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

set policies for retentions within TSM

NOTE: Colin Dawson is aware of this RFETivoli SSAM/TSM Couldn't policies for retention be set by one person and then validated and activated by another? Four Eyes principle. Needed to prevent single persons from deleting content.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server

We need support for this implementation:- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client, Tivoli Storage Manager API and Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on operating system Oracle Linux 6.1;- Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager BA client on...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance rela

Requesting a mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance related data)?
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to disable a job

Currently in the vCenter Plugin it is not possible to disable a schedule. The only possibility to "disable" a schedule is to delete the schedule or to set it to a time very very far in future.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

FCM vCenterPlugin: Email notification

If a job fails, it only can be seen in the vCenter Plugin, so the administrators always have to take a look in the Plugin in order to check if the backup schedules were successfully. It is necessary to have a functionality to send out an email onc...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM vCenterPlugin: Possibility to disable a job

Currently in the vCenter Plugin it is not possible to disable a schedule. The only possibility to "disable" a schedule is to delete the schedule or to set it to a time very very far in future.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Linux OS support

BMR of Linux OS (RHEL mostly)Support of Any-to-Any restore.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for BMR 2 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.